{"id":484868,"date":"2026-06-05T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484868\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:27:13","slug":"world-cup-2026-david-yarrow-explains-viral-norway-world-cup-viking-photoshoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484868\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: David Yarrow explains viral Norway World Cup Viking photoshoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Realising his vision for photo, though, was not so straight-forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yarrow had to navigate the packed schedule of Norway captain and Premier League champion Martin Odegaard &#8211; who was in Budapest with Arsenal for the Champions League final on the day of the squad shoot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the parade had left north London, Odegaard joined Yarrow for a solo shoot, and the cloudy conditions matched those of the original shoot &#8211; meaning his figure could be added in without too much fuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was crucial to Yarrow that Odegaard and his title rival Haaland did not steal the show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The one thing that was important about that picture is if, in the Norwegian squad, you&#8217;ve got someone that&#8217;s worth \u00a3200m and then you&#8217;ve got Watford&#8217;s goalkeeper [Egil Selvik] that&#8217;s worth \u00a3250,000, the third-in-line goalie \u2013 that they both occupy the same amount of the frame,&#8221; Yarrow told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s very important for me. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is was not seen to be Haaland and Odegaard and 24 others \u2013 it was important to foster a sense of team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yarrow was a guest of Norway as the side beat Sweden 3-1 in a warm-up friendly on Monday, with goals by Jorgen Strand Larsen and Antonio Nusa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was struck by the breadth of talent in the Norway team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People think it&#8217;s a team of two people and it&#8217;s so not,&#8221; said Yarrow, who was born in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a seriously good football team, from their wingers to their backs, and I think they&#8217;ll go quite far in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, like Scotland &#8211; they&#8217;ve got to win their first game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Realising his vision for photo, though, was not so straight-forward. Yarrow had to navigate the packed schedule of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-484868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}